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Very few do. Said Arnold Kanter, a Bush Administration Under Secretary of State who conducted previous talks with Pyongyang: "What we don't know about North Korea is so vast that it makes the Kremlin of the 1950s look like an open book." The communist northern tier of a peninsula once known as the Hermit Kingdom has lived up to that name with a vengeance, enveloping its 22 million people in a bell jar of propaganda, thought control and mythology glorifying the Kims, often in public pageants that would dwarf a Cecil B. DeMille production. What factions may exist...
Government troops poured into the rebel stronghold of Aden on the southern Saudi Arabian peninsula, claiming victory over secessionists in the 65-day-old civil war. Thousands of South Yemeni residents fled, but just as many met the soldiers with cries of welcome after weeks of siege and shelling. The conflict between tribal-based North Yemen and communist South Yemen was the first since the two states merged four years ago, and had quashed popular hopes that a series of wars and skirmishes since the 1960s would ever cease. Even now, the separatist leader, Ali Salem al-Beidh, and five...
...motivations used to be political, at least in part. These days, there's no Communist threat reaching down into the Iran or Soviet generals talking to Egyptian chiefs of staff. Nevertheless, the U.S., Russia and China still send millions of dollars in arms to the Arabian Peninsula every year...
...Koreas came closer today than ever before holding high-level talks, setting a July 27 date for a summit. The presidents of the two countries are scheduled to come face-to-face in the communist capital, Pyongyang, the first such meeting in the 49 years since the Korean Peninsula was divided. Why should Americans care? A meeting between the two could cool Cold-War tensions and help further defuse a U.S.-North Korea standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear-weapons program. Already, though, signs are emerging of potential irritation between the two Koreas: the North refuses to discuss a second confab...
...Gaskin's lights, President Clinton is left with three bad choices: mount a Normandy-style invasion from the shores of a reluctant Japan; use atomic weapons on Pyongyang, at the cost of countless civilian lives and the peninsula; or simply throw in the towel. Last week Gaskin defended his three- year-old prognostication: "I don't think it's changed much, except at the margins...